Tuesday, 12 November 2013 19:37
Future Valmet to deliver a complete biomass fired power plant for Uni Viridas in Croatia
Metso's Pulp, Paper and Power business, the future Valmet, will supply Uni Viridas d.o.o. with a complete biomass fired power plant, which will provide power and heat to the city of Babina Creda in Croatia. Uni Viridas is a special…
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Tuesday, 12 November 2013 10:15
Key patent for the BALI process granted by the European Patent Office
The European Patent Office has granted Borregaard a patent for the key production process behind the company’s BALI project. The patent describes the conversion of wood, agricultural waste and other biomasses to advanced biofuels and/or biochemicals, and to water soluble…
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Monday, 04 November 2013 09:10
Metso’s automation to run Asia’s largest-capacity biomass power plant
Metso’s advanced automation technology for difficult fuel mixes enters South Korea GS Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd. (GS E&C), has chosen Metso to supply automation for the Dangjin 4 Biomass Power Plant, currently under construction in Dangjin City, about 70…
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Thursday, 31 October 2013 09:02
Borregaard: Natural gas replaces heavy oil
Borregaard's new natural gas facility at the plant in Sarpsborg is now in full operation and has made the company independent of heavy oil. This entails major environmental benefits in terms of emissions to air. For the past 13 years…
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Wednesday, 09 October 2013 19:40
Official opening of European Bioenergy Research Institute at Aston University on 28 October 2013
The European Bioenergy Research Institute (EBRI) at Aston University will have its new facilities officially opened by The Rt Hon. the Lord Deben at an event on Monday 28 October. EBRI’s new ‘home’ at Aston University is a state-of-the-art building…
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Thursday, 03 October 2013 09:39
Vaskiluodon Voima orders automation retrofit from Metso for its Seinäjoki power plant in Finland
Targeting even better availability and safety Vaskiluodon Voima and Metso have signed an agreement about an extensive automation retrofit at the former's power plant in Seinäjoki, Finland. With the investment, Vaskiluodon Voima replaces the automation system taken into use in…
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Monday, 23 September 2013 09:31
ANDRITZ to supply major equipment for Mjölby biomass power plant, Sweden
ANDRITZ Energy & Environment (AE&E), part of international technology Group ANDRITZ, has received an order from energy utility Mjölby-Svartadalen Energi (MSE) to supply a biomass-fired combined heat and power plant for the town of Mjölby, Sweden. Start-up is scheduled for…
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Monday, 09 September 2013 09:35
Saxlund to deliver to Waste-to-Energy project in Zürich
Saxlund International GmbH, a fully-owned subsidiary of Opcon AB, the energy and environmental technology Group, has won an order from Outotec GmbH for the delivery of sludge handling equipment to the Waste-to-Energy solution at ERZ Entsorgung + Recycling Zürich’s new…
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Thursday, 01 August 2013 11:00
US biofuel producer Inoes Bio brings $130m plant online
US biofuel producer Inoes Bio‘s $130m Indian River BioEnergy Centre biofuels plant has come online, with first ethanol shipments to be released in August. A joint venture between Inoes Bio and New Planet Energy, the plant is expected to have…
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Monday, 15 July 2013 09:36
Fierce lobbying on biofuels criteria ahead of EU vote
MEPs voted 43-26 in favour of a 5.5% cap on European support for biofuels, as new research showed that growing fuel crops in place of food creates more hunger and deforestation. The vote was on whether to endorse a strict…
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Monday, 08 July 2013 08:30
VTT: New gasification method turns forest residues to biofuel with less than a euro per litre
According to the new research results of the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, lignocellulosic biomass can be used in the production of high-quality biofuels for the price of less than one euro per litre. A new technology developed in…
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Monday, 08 July 2013 07:46
Tree fungus offers biofuel potential
The hunt for the most efficient and, ideally, most environmentally friendly biofuels continues. One possible source for triggering 'power cells' is a common tree fungus. There are many different ways to produce biofuels and the search for the optimal way…
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